An abandoned power plant in eastern Kanto, where Zapdos is said to reside. Since there is a lot of static electricity in the air, Electric attacks require less energy to cast, meaning all Electric-type moves cost 1 less energy point to use. Zapdos may occasionally (10% chance after each round) appear and use Drill Peck on one of the combatants. (Note to ref: To aid calculations, assume Zapdos' attack is **. Factor in STAB and type advantage/disadvantage as normal.)

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Totodile (*) [Irwin] (M)Nature: Jolly (A 15% increase (rounded up) in Base Speed and a +5% increase in accuracy (e.g. 85 becomes 90) on this Pokemon's attacks; Subtracts * from Special Attack)Type:Water: Water STAB; Can breathe and have excellent mobility when underwater, are less capable on land unless they are entirely amphibious. Splash and Ice Moves have Energy Cost reduced by one (1).

Abilities:Torrent: (Innate) When this Pokemon’s HP is lower than 33%, the base damage of any water attack is increased by two (2). (eg Water Pulse goes from 6 to 8, Hydro Pump from 12 to 14)Sheer Force (DW): (Can be Enabled) This Pokemon can energize all its attacks with secondary effect chances less than 100%. When Enabled, the Base Attack Power of every move with an effect chance less than 100% increases by two (2), but they will never have a secondary effect.

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType:Dark: Dark STAB; Immunity to all telepathic and telekinetic attacks, better performance in all darkened and especially twilight conditions. Can use more devious Dark-type attacks while attracted. Revenge and Vengeance have Energy Cost reduced by one (1).Steel: Steel STAB; Immune to Sandstorm, highly insusceptible to toxic attacks, but can be corroded specifically by Acid and Acid Bomb, can be magnetized.

Abilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.Pressure (DW): (Innate) This Pokemon’s presence fills the air with intense anxiety, and any damaging or status attack launched at this Pokemon costs the opposing Pokemon two (2) more energy to perform.

Abilities:Rivalry: (Innate) This Pokemon has a primal response to competition and mating, increasing the power of all its attacks by two (2) when it attscks an opponent of the same gender in the same Egg Group, and decreasing the power of all its attacks by two (2) when it faces an opponent of the opposite gender in the same Egg Group (Monster/Ground are used for Nidorina/Nidoqueen).Intimidate: (Can be Activated) When this Pokemon initially goes out into the battlefield, it generates an intimidating roar or war cry that shakes all opponents on the battlefield, reducing thier Attack stage by one (1). The attack drop is maintained at the end of each round. If an opponent switches in a new Pokemon, Intimidate can be activated again.Guts (DW): (Innate) This Pokemon is tenacious and will work ever harder when under a status condition, raising the base attack power of all its physical attacks by two (2). Pokemon with Guts ignore the attack drop from burn.

Stats:
HP: 90
Atk: ***
Def: **
SpA: * (-)
SpD: **
Spe: 52 (+)

EC: 0/9MC: 0DC: 0/5

Moves:
Tackle
Leer
Charge
Spark
Bite
Roar
Swagger

Ice Fang
Thunder Fang
Take Down

Wild Charge
Return
Double Team

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Abilities:Effect Spore: (Can be Disabled) This Pokemon has a stockpile of defensive spores which it realeases on opponents who strike with contact attacks. There is a 10% chance each of poison, paralysis, and sleep.
When disabled, the Pokemon's Powder attacks are 10% more accurate.Poison Heal: (Innate) Pokemon with this ability have internal structures that absorb the toxins in poison and uses them to recover two (2) HP/action instead of taking poison damage. Their Toxic counter will still go up should their ability be disabled.Quick Feet (DW): (Innate)
This Pokemon feels a sense of anxiety when afflicted with a status condition and its speed increases by 50% (x1.5). Although it can still be fully paralyzed, it will not suffer the speed drop.

Abilities: Run Away: (Innate) This Pokemon is quick on its feet and can evade any traps in an arena. Run Away does not allow the Pokemon to escape from trapping moves or abilities, however it can escape other situational trapping strategies in battle.Adaptibility: (Innate) The moves that match this Pokemon’s type deal two (2) more damage.Anticipation(DW): (Innate) This Pokemon is better at sensing dangerous attacks, and takes three (3) less damage from super-effective attacks, Selfdestruct, and Explosion.

Galladiator sends out his first Pokemon
Solstice responds with his next mon, calls orders
Galladiator gives his orders.
I post, then Galladiator and Solstice alternate the order they order their mons in. You know the drill.

Ok, c'mon out Bella Luna the Nohface! Start us off with a strong Will"O"Wisp, and then follow with a quick Leer. Then finish with a strong Faint Attack. Now if Will"O"Wisp fails at any time use it again until it hits, and if Zapdos appears Shadow Sneak behind Fischer so he takes the damage!

Will"O"Wisp-Leer-Faint Attack

If Will"O"Wisp fails continue to use it
If Zapdos appears use Fischer as cover by Shadow Sneaking

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Galladiator begins by sending out a Pawniard, as Solstice responds with a Nohface. The two Steel-types stare each other down-but whereas Fischer the Pawniard seems to have kept staring, in an almost frightening manner, Bella Luna the Nohface is frightened-slowed to a halt, almost. Trying to make up for things, she hastily fires off a single ball of ghastly flames at Fischer...who easily evades the misprepared attack.

Babbling, Fischer begins to use his natural deceptive powers as a Dark-type to irritate and annoy Nohface. The torment is too much for her-and try as she might, she can't produce another will o' the wisp.

Zapdos observes the brawl on its lands. All the Electric-types knew to flee the area, and the Will O' Wisp simply hit a Delibird in the distance. Speaking of which, Zapdos has chicks to feed, and she swoops down on the poor Delibird like a hawk on a sparrow.

We take a moment of silence for the Delibird, before returning to our regularly scheduled programming. The Delibird was far away from the battlefield anyway, so it isn't a concern of our combatants.

Both Fischer and Bella Luna have elected to use fairly weak attacks against the other. Both, of course, deal little damage. Notably, Fischer easily sees through Nohface's feeble attempts to hide in the shadows of the tall grass-he easily uses his iron skin and Dark-type senses of trickery to minimize the damage.

Surprisingly, neither have really done that much against the other, although Fischer has done slightly more. Both are nearly at full power, and both await fresh commands."

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Just out of curiosity, why would there be Delibird in Kanto? Just wondering...

Way to go, Fischer! Now I want you to hit it with your own Faint Attack, followed by a Leer and another Metal Claw! If it uses Will-o-Wisp again, use the next action to evade with Faint Attack! If it attacks, replace the next action with Sucker Punch!

and oh yes Firefox on a computer that doesn't have a finicky mouse makes me a happy ref. Google Chrome is a good browser, but Firefox's auto-formatting on Smogon makes life much easier for reffing.

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

"Fischer starts out the match rather confused-unable to tell whether the extremely slow Nohface is trying to attack, he suddenly begins weaving back and forth. As Bella Luna finally charges her body with steely light, Fischer sucker punches her with his pointy claws. Annoyed, Bella Luna rams her metal face into Fischer, doing damage despite Fischer's metallic skin.

Fischer tries again-this time weaving again, before again stabbing Bella Luna's ethereal, yet strangely metallic essence in another sucker punch. It takes more energy for Fischer to fool the Nohface this time. Undeterred, Bella Luna takes some of its dark form and forms many purple stones (which thankfully don't torment her), which all cascade towards Fischer at once. The stones don't do much-but Fischer already anticipates Nohface's next move, dodging into the shadows. Bella Luna calmly fires another ball of flames anyway. The flames hit the water, causing it to boil a little before dissipating.

Zapdos is too busy dressing the Delibird corpse to bring home to her chicks to care. Besides, nobody's done any real damage-nothing's caught on fire, and the chicks already know how to call 911 in case of errant Electrode explosions.

Both parties await new commands. Fischer seems to have done more damage this round-at the cost of losing the most energy this round. All that anticipation of moves is wearing him out a bit." (Out of character translation: All those substitutions/ambiguous wording meant I added an energy penalty of 6 to Fischer this round.)

"By the way-it seems Bella Luna's trainer, Solstice, is ordering first this round!"

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

"Starting off this round, it seems as though Bella Luna has let off a yawn-and try as he might to block it out, Fischer just can't seem to resist it. His struggle against it might have even made him MORE to the sleep, since he seems to be nodding off before actually being able to act...

Observing her sleeping foe, Bella Luna decides to knock him into the water with the force of a meteor. As she approaches, charging up her atta-

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'SUCKER PUNCH, YOU BLISSEY!'

Good thing our Pokemon-to-English translator kicked in just at the right time to hear that strange piece of Pokemon swearing. It appears that this was uttered right after Fischer Sucker Punched Bella Luna-looks like Galladiator's gambit worked after all! Annoyed, Bella Luna suddenly rams into her enemy with steely power, knocking Pawniard backwards...right to the edge of the water-where he trips and falls in!

Content with her work, Bella Luna moves to hide in the power plant itself. As Fischer wasn't really knocked back far enough into the water for its limited swimming capacity to give it a significant drowning risk, he manages to swim back in, and vanish into the Power Plant with the Nohface.

Zapdos is growing wary-the battle has moved into the plant itself, where her chicks might be harmed. But that isn't to say that they're nearly close enough to trigger her worries more than just caution. A soft light appears behind the group as Zapdos roasts the Delibird carcass in front of the chicks, small sparks coming out as the Delibird is cooked. Ignoring this spectacle, both Fischer and Bella Luna are ready to be commanded. It also seems like Galladiator is going first this round!"

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

"Confident in victory, Fischer confidently starts the match off with a face to scare the living daylights out of Bella Luna. While she's frightened, she isn't quite so impressed, and she yawns loudly at his performance.

In response, Fischer plays dead again. Although Bella Luna knows full well the Pawniard is just faking it, she takes his sucker punch like a champ and hits Pawniard backwards-into...wait a minute, weren't those two broken wires? And doesn't Steel conduct elect-

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Zapdos and her chicks watch as Pawniard receives the extra crispy treatment. It deals MASSIVE damage-Pawniard has to play dead yet again in order to lure Bella Luna close enough for yet ANOTHER sucker punch. Bella Luna responds with a cascade of rocks, which don't knock Pawniard away into more electrical equipment-but her Meteor-like power has stayed with her this time, letting the rocks deal extra damage!

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Awesome job Bella Luna! Now we don't want him to get zapped and wake up, so start with a Rock Slide to bury him! Then if he gets out use Meteor Mash, if not chill. If you do use Meteor Mash finish with a chill, but if you chill after the Rock Slide use Will"O"Wisp!

Okay, Fischer, listen carefully. Start out by voluntarily touching the wires just enough to wake you up! I know it hurts, but just trust me here! Then, chill behind the rocks, and after Nohface shoots the Will-o-Wisp, Faint Attack out!

...Thankfully, it's a long weekend, so I can finally get to reffing you guys! (note: As the battle began before the clarification on energy usage across rounds, and it has gone on for a while, I will not count cross-round movespam penalties.)

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

"Fischer tries to shock himself out of his drowsiness by touching the wires. The jolt is strong enough to prevent him from going to sleep, yet Fischer knows he can't keep his eyes open forever.... Although Bella Luna launches another barrage of rocks at Fischer, one of Zapdos's chicks sneezes, the noise disrupting her aim. Somewhere, far away, a Jirachi is smiling.

Doing as his trainer commands, Fischer chills out. On the other hand, Bella Luna is thrown out of whack by the force of the attack, and decides the intent of her trainers' command was to chill if she couldn't access Fischer; to attack if she could. This time, she hits, knocking Fischer backwards into the wires again, fully waking him up.

Content, Nohface chills...as Fischer vanishes once again to hit her with an unavoidable strike.

Zapdos, seeing the damage done to the Power Plant, begins to move forwards, but her chicks restrain her, chirping that they want to keep watching the battle and that the Delibird isn't even half-finished. Meanwhile, both contestants are beginning to tire-Galladiator goes next, but is Fischer strong enough to finish this?"

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.

"In a desperate attempt to defeat his adversary, Fischer begins to wildly vanish to hit Bella Luna, only for Bella Luna to respond with a close-ranged will o' the wisp that FINALLY burns Fischer!

As Pawniard flails about, vanishing to and fro more wildly and with more energy to strike Bella Luna to make up for the burn, stray energy from the Will O' Wisp spreads onto a small piece of electrical equipment, lighting a tiny blue flame on it. Zapdos doesn't seem to have seen yet, yet one of her chicks is giving nervous glances at the ghastly flames...Bella Luna foolishly decides to try striking the Pawniard with his own medicine. Without the knowledge of Dark-types, and against the metallic skin of the streetwise Pawniard, Pawniard easily parries, despite the fact that his metal is starting to peel...

Pawniard suddenly channels most of his energy into a singular vanishing strike, dealing critical damage to Bella Luna! Although she feels her time in the battle is nearly up, she calmly chills, ready to launch a last-second strike against Pawniard.

The chance never came. It seems like the Will O' Wisp has spread, and the chicks are already ordering random Magnetons to bring fire extinguishers. Zapdos decides to deal with the fire-starter personally, drilling into Bella Luna with the sharp beak common to her species. Bella Luna's internal mask cracks in half from all the strain received in the battle-while her astral body will be able to repair the damage with the aid of a Revive, she is certainly unable to battle right now, and Solstice is forced to sadly recall her for this fight.

It isn't like Fischer isn't feeling so good, though-all those vanishing strikes have left him feeling rather energy-dry. Why, if he doesn't chill soon, he might just faint of exhaustion! Either way, Solstice is forced to send out his next Pokemon."

Pawniard [Fischer] (M)Nature: AdamantType: Dark/SteelAbilities:Defiant: (Innate) The Pokemon has a deep sense of honor, and whenever one of its stats are decreased by an opponent's move, it's Attack increases by two (2) stages.Inner Focus: (Innate) When an opponent attempts to flinch this Pokemon, it stands firm and continues its attack. If it has another ability that would be activated by flinching, that ability activates.